Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Through those connections, Reichel got Flodin's Swedish social security number. DiBenedetto's Interpol contact ran it through motor vehicles in Sweden -- and made the discovery that broke the case. In 1994 Flodin had applied for a French driver's license under the name Annika Flodin Mallon...
...early-to-bed town of farmers was bug-eyed when the case broke, but few people in Champagne-Mouton knew Einhorn, a man who spoke little French and was seldom seen except to pick up his International Herald Tribune twice a week at the village newsstand. A pile of the papers ordered for him sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn...
...spite of some minor technical difficulties (the stage broke), the Dunster House Opera (DHO) gave a sell-out performance of Leonard Bernstein's opera/musical version of Voltaire's Candide last weekend. The cast, particularly Joseph Nuccio'00 had a great deal of fun with an already witty, sarcastic and sexually infused libretto. Audience laughter often echoed the mirth of the lighthearted and light-footed cast...
...fact, DHO's stage offerred a radical new take on Voltaire's classic story. Roundly showing that this is not necessarily the best of all possible worlds, the stage broke twice. I did not notice the first time the stage broke (apparently a supporting pillar cracked), so clearly, the stage's problems did not detract from what was happening on stage. Sometime during the second act there was another crashing sound (this time I noticed it) and the actors quickly rearranged some of the blocks to mask whatever harm had been done to it. The cast certainly believed that...
...building's longest-running tenant, the Iroquois final club, had to leave in 1971. The club was nearly broke, and could no longer afford the luxury of its own club-house...